Hey, this is Overpass Insights! My name is Eric and I make apps! Now today, I want to
talk about how my app business is being affected by the virus.
Alright, so this is the first and probably the only video that I'm doing
this week. With everything that's going on with the COVID 19, with isolation
with, you know, all this kind of stuff going on, it seemed kind of silly to make
a video about apps, but I thought I would talk about how the quarantine and how
the isolation and everything is affecting me. How it's affecting
Overpass because I know that every single one of us has our own story. You
guys have your own story as app developers, as employers, as small
business owners, or as employees, we all are affected by it in some way. And I
just thought I'd let you guys know what I'm going through and how it's affecting
me. So, first of all I'm in isolation for 14 days because I'm ill,
but I don't think I have that. I think I just have a cold right and I've
been telling everybody, it's just a cold. But I caught it last week and as the
cough gets worse and worse where it's like waking me up at night. If I know I
have a fever but as a cough wakes me up were pio each and every night I promised
my family that I would isolate myself for 14 days I have one of my children
staying here with me in the flat so it's got to be 14 days rather than 7 days
which sounds like it's not so I mean it's not so bad because I'm working from
home anyway I'm a software developer and that software developers when they say
you have to stay home all day we're like you know and that's different from other
days how right but even I just miss going to the shop across the street I
miss going out in that kind of stuff so so so there's all that and I'm only like
I'm only like in day three of the isolation so so my spirits are still
pretty good but I have to have people bring me food and everything because I
you know you know I'm pretty well stocked now but you know online shopping
here takes weeks and everything like that I think we're all being impacted by
it by by different ways now business has like the leads into the business has
really dried up so there's nothing you know nobody's saying you know what this
is a perfect time to hire somebody to create an app for me know so you know we
haven't got a lot of leads in for the company no new clients but yesterday I
did get a few calls in which was which was good it's nice to see things you
know I think it's after a while we're realizing we're in this for the long
haul and no reason to stop everything right so that's going on
we have a few existing projects at the moment that we're trying to trying to
get through and also a few weeks before I mean well just a couple weeks before
all this went haywire I did take on a contract where I'm working three days a
week for exclusively for a client so I've got that going too and now you know
I'm just like and I was really apprehensive about it thinking I'm do I
really have the time to take three days out of my schedule to work exclusively
for one client and now I am so glad I did just because we have that bit of
money coming in and you know cash flow is obviously it's a concern for me and
I'm trying to keep everybody on the team trying to keep everybody working
everybody employed but also you know keep everything ticking over so the
disruption for me is that the developers are working from home now to especially
the ones that that I worked with some development companies and they're all
working from home and making sure that everybody has decent internet which is
always a problem you know for me Internet was always like my top priority
right I need the fastest internet we could get because of YouTube videos
because of when I work from home all that kind of stuff but it doesn't but
it's definitely a strange time and and also going to the gym obviously not
going to the gym but luckily I was able to buy a weight bench and some dumbbells
and some barbells so I could keep that up through through the crisis however
long is gonna be and we are gonna do the livestream on Friday night so we are
gonna do the livestream tonight which I'm really looking forward to some
actual human contact with you guys so find out what you guys what you guys are
doing but as an app developer as a software developer especially for India
developers hopefully this isn't hitting you too hard everyone keeps asking me
how is this affecting the AdMob rpms how is this affecting the app revenue but
because Google suspended my account just like a week a week and a half before all
of this broke out right I'm still going through and reactivating all the apps so
I don't really have a very clean metric on how this affects everything because
right by the way another thing is don't release an app about koban 19 don't
release an app about the coronavirus I've been getting a lot of emails from
people saying I really sent half on the coronavirus and it just you know I was
suspended immediately right do that because I'm sure even though if
it's something that's helpful for people the algorithm is gonna shut it down
because I'm sure every every app that somebody makes us helpful that they
think it's gonna help people during the crisis that I'm sure there's loads of
people who are exploiting it like I'm sure there's I'm sure people are trying
to put out games about avoid the virus and all that kind of stuff which is just
gonna get you know the algorithm I mean I had my had a few apps shut down
because of the the pandemic and they had nothing to do with viruses or anything
it was like a language learning game so anyway this is just a video just to
check in right I want to know how you guys are getting on we'll talk about it
on the livestream tonight which will be at 5:00 p.m. UK time which right now
we're still on GMT but I think next week we'll be changing the clock so it'd be a
different time how are you guys getting on how is it affecting you if you're an
employee are you working from home and howhow are
you finding that are you able to keep the motivation up and if you're if
you're a small business what are your leads like because for me
tumbleweeds tumbleweeds at the moment and and if as an indie developer how is
it affecting your app revenue anyway I hope you guys are having a fantastic day
I'm gonna try to get better at getting these videos out there like I said it
seems silly with everything that's going on to talk about this kind of stuff but
in a way maybe it's better just having this kind of interaction just so we
could catch up every so often so anyway I hope you guys having a great day stay
healthy stay safe I'll talk to you next time